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urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error Tunnel connection failed: 403 Tunnel or SSL Forbidden>

Unable to scrape data from the following link. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Could you please whitelist this website.

cov19dashboard | 5 posts | July 21, 2021, 3:37 a.m. | permalink

Send us a link to the API documentation and we'll consider it for the whitelist.

Staff glenn | 9498 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | July 21, 2021, 7:47 a.m. | permalink

It is not exactly an API. It is just a site with no API documentation. I am scraping it using Soup. But I am getting the forbidden URL error.

cov19dashboard | 5 posts | July 21, 2021, 4:17 p.m. | permalink

We can only whitelist sites if they have an official public API.

Staff giles | 11800 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | July 21, 2021, 5:17 p.m. | permalink